North Korea wants compensation up front before freezing weapons program

[DuctapeFatwa]

Delegates put their hands together for a photo as they entered China's state guesthouse for the meetings. Chinese foreign vice-minister Wang Yi opened the meeting. "The recent flurry of diplomacy is good preparation for these talks and helps in understanding," he said.


The talks, months in the making, are the second round to include both Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan. A first round in August, also held in Beijing, ended with little concrete progress and only vague promises to meet again.


The meeting opened hours after North Korea demanded compensation in exchange for freezing its weapons program.


"Only if the compensation issue is settled can the North Korean freeze plan be achieved," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted saying in the North's capital Pyongyang, by China's Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday. "If the 'freeze first, compensate later' question is raised in these talks, North Korea will resolutely oppose it," the spokesman said.

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[gmoney]

1. They've seen our credit report...

And they'll probably ask to be paid in Euros or gold.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. I don't think so.

I wouldn't mind sending UN workers in the country and personally vaccinate or feed the populace but I would be pissed if our government handed that evil dictator one penny of my tax dollars!

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. being an evil dictator should get him most favored nation status

He should talk to Karimov and sharon, boil a few Muslims, he'll be wallowing in dollars within a week.